Minutes of the NSAAC Business Meeting June 6, 2014

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President Hocker called the June Business Meeting of the NSAAC to order at 8:11 PM. There were nine members present plus five Board members. There was a quorum. Meeting was official.

Secretary:

Minutes of all previous business meeting were approved by acclamation.

Treasurer:

Kevin Ackert will give the board a final close of the books by the June Board meeting.

Membership:

There was a new member Sarah Guard. There are 84 members in good standing. Richard Leucke will send out a reminder letter to those old members who have not renewed.

Early Meeting Announcements:

Open forum on the agenda after New Business

Committee Reports:

Merrimack College:

Kevin Ackert was clouded out. Fred Sammartino opened on two nights with about 15 visitors each night..

Salem University:

Dennis was open on May 5th with 15 visitors. The observatory is closed for the summer. After the summer settles down, Dennis and Ron Sampson will do some maintenance on the scope. Dennis has submitted a request to the University for a Solar Scope but has not heard back from them.

News, Correspondence, and Upcoming Activities:

Star Party Committee:

We had a successful event with great turnout at Holton Richmond Middle School in Danvers on May 6th. The AB Bruce (Lawrence) event planned for May 20th was canceled due to a conflict at the school. The Camp Kent star party in Amesbury attendance was impacted due to the town-wide lockdown after some crazy with guns crashed a stolen a police car about 2 miles away and went off into the woods.

Bryan Stone indicated that Orion no longer sales the six inch Inteliscope DOB. Kevin plans to make the program an ongoing program maybe twice a year. The club wants to get more students involved and award a better telescope such as the eight inch Inteliscope DOB.

Old Business:

The club still would like to find other volunteers to do star party presentations. If anyone is interested please contact Brewster LaMacchia.

The club was bumped from the meeting room because of events scheduled by Veasey and not on their calendar. The club seems to not be on the Veasey radar screen. Kevin Ackert will draft a letter approved by the Board to Veasey management about this issue.

Kevin Ackert will email John Tulick of the Mass DCR to update the permit for Dark Park.

New Business:

Kevin asked if the club wanted to get into in some programs for the summer or Moose Dodge. It was tabled to the board meeting.

The June Board meeting date will be Monday June 16th at 7:30 PM at Veasey.